New Publications

Janne Holmén, Ann-Sofie Jägerskog, Daniel Schumann & Malin Tväråna

The fact that textbooks and other educational media should reflect different perspectives and enable learners to form their own opinions is widely accepted by academics, schools and publishers.

Few terms are so closely associated with the Holocaust than that of contemporary witness.  Whether as speakers at commemorative events or involved in (extracurricular) democracy and human rights education, contemporary witnesses fulfil a specific role: they make history more tangible and enable empathy with their stories. Those stories convey the significance of the suffering experienced and lend a personal character to the historiography of Nazi crimes, which is often perceived as abstract. Any…